Buy at AllPosters.com This group shouldve faded away in the 70s, but for some reason ABBA has endured. Last week Mamma Mia hit theatres. Starring Meryl Streep, the movie musical is based on the successful Broadway play inspired by the music of ABBA. ABBA fans are wild about it and cant seem to get enough of this [...]

I've actively avoided the early work of Chicago (thanks to a childhood spent hearing its later material), so I can't say whether I agree with Variety's Phil Gallo and his contention that the band and its "superb musicianship" has been unfairly kept out of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. But I'm intrigued by one of his claims: "It shows the bias of the hall's voters—they are either too old to have the wistful childhood memories of the early '70s or too young to fully appreciate how distinctive they were in the pop landscape at the time." Whether it's due to this alleged age schism (I doubt that the "rock experts" who get ballots don't include people with childhood memories of the early '70s) or not, there are quite a few commercially successful and even critically acclaimed artists who released notable works in that decade and have been ignored by the voting public.  read more »

I began listening to ABBA when I was about 15 or so and just leaving school because obviously I had heard some of their songs on the radio and TV but somehow I came across an ABBA cassette and played it and then played it over and over. Musically and phonetically ABBA are one of my favorite groups of all time (which is why I am writing this).

One of the pleasures of following Popular, in which Tom Ewing reviews every No. 1 U.K. pop hit in order, is tracing careers-in-miniature—"tiny novels," as Greil Marcus said of Robert Christgau's 1980s Consumer Guide book . That's especially true of Ewing's ABBA write-ups.  read more »

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A new museum devoted to the
pop supergroup ABBA will not open as planned next year, but
organizers say the project will definitely still go ahead.

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LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Swedish pop group ABBA made
British chart history on Sunday as its "Gold -- Greatest Hits"
compilation became the oldest album to reach No. 1, thanks to
the hit movie musical "Mamma Mia!"

Despite the astonishing success of the stage musical "Mamma Mia!," ABBA has ruled out any reunion tour.

In this June 14, 1974 file photo, Swedish pop group ABBA, Bjorn Ulvaeus, back left, Benny Andersson, back right, Agnetha Faltskog, front left, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are shown.

LONDON (AP) - Despite the astonishing success of the stage
musical ``Mamma Mia!,'' ABBA has ruled out any reunion tour.